"Father!" Naevia roared at Arnold, as he walked out of her sight. She's furious to see how cruel her father could be.Her eyes are still at the top of the stairs, reminiscing on the horrific truth about her father.She's lost in her rage that she forgot about the guards her father, Arnold, had ordered to take her captive.She only noticed their presence when she felt her arms being held. Naevia came to her senses, pulling her arms out from their grip."Stay the fuck away from me!" He yelled at them, facing them angrily. But the guards didn't stop trying.The guards tried to take Naevia, but she threatened to harm them if they got closer to her.She was speaking and shouting at the ones right in front of her, not knowing the guard coming from behind her.Naevia immediately spotted the other guard through a glass frame of a painting, which was the wall.She turned over and landed a punch on the guard. This gave the others the chance to grab her immediately."Let me go! Let...me...go!" H
The maids spent thirty minutes cleaning up Naevia's injury. Once they were done, they told Naevia they were going to get her dinner.Naevia hummed without responding with a word. The maids took everything they had brought and exited the room.Naevia stayed quiet on the bed, lost in her thoughts. Her mind wandering around on her shocking present and unforgettable past.She thought mostly of the past with her mother. All the beautiful memories she shared with her before she died. Naevia felt so lonely. It almost seemed like she was the only one left in this world."All my life has been a lie. I thought I had a lovely father and a wonderful husband. But all that was a lie," she said to herself, feeling hurt.Just as she was thinking of the betrayal, Naevia thought of her mother. When she was little, her mother had given her something to keep her close to her heart.It was an old locket. A silver old locket. Naevia's mother had given it to Naevia when she was still a little girl.One day
After her conversation with Kelvin, the loyal guard decides to let Naevia eat her dinner and rest. He leaves Naevia alone in the room and goes.Naevia takes her food in her hand and starts eating. She takes three spoons out of it, but stops halfway.She started losing her appetite, thinking about Zane. These past days, after their union as a married couple, Naevia has gotten used to eating with Zane.She felt full and pushed her food aside. She no longer wanted to eat. She drank a glass of water and faced the box belonging to her mother.Naevia gathered everything together in the box, including the locket and the two papers that fell from it. She placed them in the box and straight under the bed.Just as she was sitting back to get into bed, she noticed a strange movement at the door. She didn't know that Kelvin hadn't shut the door properly. "Who's there?" She inquired.But there was no response. Once again, she questioned who was there. Then one of the maids Zane hired to take care
Naevia gets into her car, placing both papers down where she can see it. She mostly played the paper with the address on the other, so she can find her way to her destination.About starting the car, Naevia looked up and saw her worried husband, standing at the entrance of the mansion, looking at her.She stared back at him, but soon took her eyes away from him. Starting the car and driving out of the premises.Zane watched her. He would have followed her, but what's the point of it? It's not like if he goes after Naevia she would forgive him.He has been watching her, secretly attending to things without him being around her. Whatever she has been doing, she has been doing it away from him.The young Mafia boss feels dejected. He goes back into the mansion, feeling frustrated with the situation of his marriage with Naevia..On the way, Naevia asks for directions from passers by she comes across. Some weren't familiar with the address she made mention of, while some, who had a hint,
"A safe? I never knew about it. The only safe I recur, is the one belonging to my father in his room. The time I saw the safe, my father had driven me out of his room and warned him never to be near there," Naevia said, recounting the past.Hearing this, Naevia's Aunt scoffed and asked, "Does that hypocrite possess such?" Naevia stared at her Aunt. The old woman smirked at Naevia and said, "Your father has nothing, not even a safe of his."From the way she spoke, Naevia suspected that her mother's junior sister knew a lot more about her father than she did. Curious, she asked, "Do tell me everything that happened. From the time my father and mother met, till the time she died. I want to know everything."Naevia's Aunt stared at her niece. She gave a curve to the lips and hummed. "With pleasure my dear. It's a really long story, but I'll still share it with you," she decided.Naevia felt her ears spring up. She couldn't wait to know how her parents met, and if really love brought them
Naevia gazed at the key with the code marked on it. She slowly picked it up to look at it. The code on the key looked like a date. "This looks like a date. Zero one one zero seven nine. October first nineteen seventy nine," Naevia called the number.When Naevia's Aunt heard this, she chuckled and responded, "You're right Naevia. It's a date. Your grandfather's birthday."Naevia lifts her head to look at her Aunt then back at the key. Her mother had used her father's birthday to code her safe.Naevia remembers her mother's innocent face. She feels hurt knowing that her father killed her and even tried to kill her Aunt too."As my mother wishes, I'll honor this request of hers. Will get what rightfully belongs to me," Naevia said confidently.Naevia's Aunt smiled at her niece. She wished for her success and prayed that she gets what belongs to her.Naevia spent more time with her Aunt. She knows she'll have to leave soon, but she needs to stay with her and feel the love of her mother on
Towards midnight, Naevia stepped out of the bedroom, after successfully placing her drunken husband in bed.She couldn't leave him right there on the cold ground, and with bottles close to him. He could get injured or sick from the freezing ground.During these few days of silence and malice towards Zane, Naevia still had much care for him. But her anger and hatred towards her father prompt her to pass them on to Zane. Since they were both in cohort, before her marriage to him.But hearing him speak in his unconscious and drunken state, Naevia felt sad and had no choice but to forgive her husband.She placed herself in his shoe and imagined herself doing everything Zane had done, just to keep the one he loves."I would have done the same thing too. Try to protect the one I love from knowing the truth. It's hurtful, so I understand," Naevia said, standing closer to the bedroom door.She shut it finally and walked away from there. Heading down the stairs, Naevia met Kelvin and the two o
The next morning, Zane wakes up with a headache. He groaned and sat up in bed. Wondering how he ended up there on the bed.All he could remember from last night was drinking and sitting on the ground depressingly.He wondered if he had laid on the bed himself. But he immediately doubted it, because his shoe wasn't on his feet anymore.He was sure that he didn't take his shoe off last night, and couldn't have covered himself up properly.Zane's heart sparkled. He had a feeling that Naevia had come into the room last night to see him. "Who else will come in here if not Naevia? She was here last night," Zane said.The young Mafia boss feels happy. Knowing that Naevia still cared about him despite his actions.All he wants now is her forgiveness. He hoped and wished that Naevia would forgive him soon, because he was missing her dearly.Zane stays for some more minutes on the bed, just to get himself again. Once his headache had reduced, he got out of bed and went to clean himself up.Done